Iranian Protests

http://www.phillyd.tv/2009/12/30/iranian-protests-get-violent/

Watch the 2 videos of Iran.

Have you seen those before? Probably not. Maybe, if you're an adult or very aware. But probably not. Those videos are horrible and incredibly upsetting to see, but most of the people I know don't even know that there is something going on in Iran. I mean seriously. If I took a tally of how many people I know knew who "Octomom" was, or Britney Spears, it would be pretty much everyone. But if I took a tally of how many of the people I know knew about this, there would be a HUGE difference.

I mean, I'm going to be honest, I really didn't know much about this, and I still don't. And a large part of that is my fault, I know. Because I don't read the newspaper or keep up nearly as much as I should or as my mother would like me to. But, maybe, it's not COMPLETELY my fault.

I mean, like I said, I'm not going to try to transfer the blame completely because that would be stupid and dishonest, but I'm just saying maybe as a country, for the bettering of our society and for our children's education's sake, we could try a little harder.

It just seems like for the most part now, the media isn't as much a source for information as much as a source of entertainment. As in, you're more likely to read something about Tiger Woods cheating than about Iran or Afghanistan or Health Care, and that is just incredibly sad. And, again, it is obviously not all media that is like this or entirely the media's fault, AT ALL. We, as a nation should be paying more attention to this stuff and not have to be force fed it all in order to be aware. But at the same time, you kind of expect the news to give you news. Real news, about important things.

Another thing is schools. I mean where are the schools about this stuff?! As far as I can tell, we really aren't getting much information about this stuff from the schools to students. I mean, we learn history so that we don't repeat ourselves, and that makes sense. But how can we function and be as innovative and intelligent and prepared in the future if we don't even know what's happening around us right now? It's ridiculous! I just feel like maybe if we had a "current events" class, where we could discuss these topics, or a sort of school newspaper with condensed versions of these things for students to read or even something as simple as the Language A (English) or History teacher assigning essays on things like this once in a while we would actually be a lot more aware of what's going on. I feel like the few aware people (such as teachers and media um...people) should be teaching/helping/informing the clueless about these things just for the sake of our country.

It just seems like this could be EASILY cured or at least improved and we don't do anything about it. I guess I understand why. I mean, it's just so much easier to think "Wow that golf player really likes sex" than to actually have to do deep thinking on ways to solve poverty in Darfur and the health care issues and Afghanistan and all its issues.

I just hope that when I have children, I am able to educate them more about these issues and that the schools are educating them more about these issues so that their generation isn't as clueless and stupid as mine.

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Was that too depressing? Here's something hilariously pathetic and horribly written! My school newspaper! Laugh at it!

1st addition: http://www.d11.org/north/documents/Final%20Newspaper1.pdf
2nd addition: http://www.d11.org/north/documents/Second%20Paper.pdf